All the seminars are at 4:30 pm in the Mellon Institute Conference Room, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the seminar begins.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
4:30 p.m.
Peter Beal, University of California, Davis
Nucleic Acid Chemical Biology: Studies in RNA interference and RNA editing
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Danith Ly
Thursday, February 6, 2014
4:30 p.m.
Bruce Armitage, Carnegie Mellon University
Haven't We Met Before? Molecular Recognition at the Chemistry-Biology Interface
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
4:30 p.m.
David Vanden Bout, The University of Texas at Austin
Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymer Aggregates: Building up Bulk Materials from Single Polymer Chains
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Linda Peteanu
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
4:30 p.m.
Kris Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University
Taming Radicals for Nanostructured Functional Materials
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Thursday, March 6, 2014
4:30 p.m.
Peter Drzal, PPG
Bringing Innovation to the Surface™: The Design of Functional Surfaces and Interfaces
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Newell Washburn
Thursday, March 20, 2014
4:30 p.m.
W. David Wei, University of Florida
Plasmon-Mediated Surface Chemistry and Its Implication for Solar Photocatalysis
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Rongchao Jin
Thursday, March 27, 2014
4:30 p.m.
Jooyoung Lee, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Professor, School of Computational Sciences and Director, Center for In Silico Protein Science
Global Optimization by Conformational Space Annealing and its Applications to Various Biological Systems
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maria Kurnikova
Thursday, April 3, 2014
4:30 p.m.
Joseph Piccirilli, University of Chicago
Antibodies as Crystallization Chaperones for RNA
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Subha Das
Thursday, April 10, 2014
4:30 p.m.
Loren Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology
RNA and Protein: A Match Made in the Hadean
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Thursday, April 17, 2014
4:30 p.m.
V. Ramamurthy, University of Miami
Chemistry in a Capsule: Manipulating Photochemical Processes Through Confinement and Weak Interactions
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Bruce Armitage
Thursday, April 24, 2014
4:30 p.m.
Seogjoo Jang, Queens College, City University of New York
How to Utilize Quantum Coherence for Efficient and Robust Transfer of Electronic Excitation Energy in Soft Molecular Environments?
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Hyung Kim
Thursday, May 1, 2014
4:30 p.m.
Newell Washburn, Carnegie Mellon University
Biomolecular Conjugates in Materials Science and Medicine
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Thursday, May 29, 2014
4:30 p.m.
Philip Costanzo, California Polytechnic State University
Employing Diels-Alder Chemistry to Prepare Thermally-Responsive Materials
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Kris Matyjaszewski
Thursday, June 5, 2014
4:30 p.m.
Michal Kruk, CUNY, Staten Island
Access to Large-Pore Ordered Mesoporous Materials and Hollow Nanoparticles Through Micelle Templating
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Kris Matyjaszewski